Richard Fitzalan

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Born: 1306 Arundel Castle, England Married: Eleanor de Lancaster Died: 24 Jan 1376 Arundel Castle, England Parents: Edmund Fitzalan & Alice De Warenne

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Great wealth

In 1347 he succeeded to the Earldom of Surrey (or Warenne), which even further increased his great wealth. (He did not however use the additional title until after the death of the Dowager Countess of Surrey in 1361.) He made very large loans to King Edward III but even so on his death left behind a great sum in hard cash.

Marriages and Children

By his first marriage to Isabel Despenser he had two children:

 Edmund Fitzalan, who was bastardized by the annulment, married Sybil, daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury.  Mary (Isabel) Fitzalan (died 29 August 1396), married John Le Strange, 4th Lord Strange of Blackmere [1]

By the second marriage to Eleanor Plantagenet, he had 3 sons and 3 surviving daughters:

 Richard, who succeeded him as 11th Earl of Arundel  John Fitzalan,1st Baron Maltravers, who was a Marshall of England, and drowned in 1379  Thomas Arundel, who became Archbishop of Canterbury  Joan (1348 - 7 April 1419) who married Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford  Alice (1350 - 17 March 1416), who married Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent  Eleanor Fitzalan (1356 - before 1366).

Footnotes

1. ^ Line 8-31,8-32 "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" by Frederick Lewis Weis

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Richard Fitzalan and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster's tombstones are in Chichester Cathedral

Among the many interesting monuments in the cathedral, including seven by John Flaxman, is the fourteenth century table tomb on which lie the effigies of Richard Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, and his second wife Eleanor holding hands. This is the tomb which inspired the poet Philip Larkin to write his poem, 'An Arundel Tomb'. Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, West Sussex, England